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Lords Treasury Committee Resolutions of Lords Treasury Committee on American business

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07654.18 Author/Creator: Lords Treasury Committee Place Written: London, England Type: Manuscript document Date: [1766]/02/04 Pagination: 2 p. : docket : Height: 31.8 cm, Width: 20.9 cm Order a Copy

Document states that the laws imposed by the Parliment of Great Britain are to be held strictly, and any governor in those colonies that have partook in insurrection should make sure his subjects pay the proper recompensations to the Crown and to those who their actions have harmed (either physically or financially). Also, those colonists who have complied with British laws are to be protectedand held in favor.

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